Gertrude Street Projection Festival - July 3-10, 2009

26th June, 2009

The Gertrude Street Projection Festival is week of projected media along Gertrude St, in Fitzroy, Melbourne. The street becomes a free walk, ride, drive through outdoor gallery at night.

The Gertrude Association - ‘Gertrude Street Projection Festival', now in its second year, is a celebration of projection art. The Association aims to explore local talent, provide a platform to celebrate the pioneers in this specality, encourage emerging artists, push the boundries while still caring fro each other and having fun!

This years festival will feature the work of Yandell Walton, an accomplished projection installation artist and recent recipient of an Australia Council sponsored mentorship in New York. Yandell combines moving images, three-dimensional spaces and objects in her projection art. Her work, Night Walkers which will be shown on the corner of Gertrude St and George St explores the over active imagination of the night world. Shadows move in unfamiliar ways; trees morph, the familiar and the unfamiliar blur in the unreal night - time world of dreams and illusion.

Other artists include: Ian De Gruchy, Hugh McSpedden and Maggie Fooke, Trewlea Peters, Zoe Scoglio and Pontao de Cultura Digital, from the University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

In all, twenty sites will project moving, still and installation work where you least expect it. The program runs 6:00pm - 12:00pm for the week 3 - 10 July.

For more information about the festival and the Gertrude Street Associations other projects, visit:
http://www.thegertrudeassociation.com/projects